People

Kira delmore

Kira is the PI in the lab. She obtained her BSCH, MA and PhD at universities in Canada (Queen’s University, Universities of Calgary and British Columbia) before spending 3 years as a Postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in northern Germany. Her research is motivated by understanding where diversity originated in the natural world and how it is maintained. She is inspired by the varied ways in which hybrid zones can be used to understand this topic.

Email: kdelmore@bio.tamu.edu

Phone: 979-845-6587

Hannah justen

Hannah started her PhD in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology program at Texas A&M in the Fall of 2018 after finishing her Masters at Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel in Germany. Hannah brings a tremendous amount of field experience to the lab along with knowledge of how variation at CLOCK, a key component of the circadian clock, correlates with migratory variation in songbirds.

Email: hjusten@bio.tamu.edu

evelien De greef

Evelien started her MSc in Biological Sciences at the University of Manitoba (UM) in Fall 2018. She obtained her BSc at the University of California, Davis, then worked as the program coordinator for the Putah Creek Nestbox Highway for two and a half years studying cavity nesting songbirds. Her interest in avian migration has led her to investigate genetic influences on migration timing in Purple Martins for her Master's, co-supervised by Kevin Fraser from UM and Kira.